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'CHINA NEW``YEAR. OBSERVANCES IN •HONGKONG, - [FROM OUR CHINESS COBRESPONDENT, ] The Chinese in Hongkong as a com- manity are still with Peking, if we may judge from outward appearances, for throughout the city the five-colour Hag was seen over the house tops in honour of the Chinese New Year. In many New Year calling and greeting cardi, however, the Kuomintang insignia-a red flag with a white sun on bice ground in the upper left corner-Agured.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, `1926
STRANDED B. & S. SHIPS.
“KWEIYANG" OFF AND HOPES
FOR THE "HUNAN."
ANOTHER JAPANESE VESSEL
ASHORE. 4
ANOTHER RICKSHA THEFT.
EUROPEAN THE VICTIM.
The third robbery by ricksha. coolies during last week took place on Friday night, the victim being Mr. R. H. Short, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Com pany.
SMALL-POX ON CHINA COAST STEAMER.
CAPTAIN, DOCTOR AND COM. PRADORE FINED.
COMPRADORE ALSO
PRISON. SENT TO
It appears, from the report made to
The discovery of four cases. of ämall. the police, that Mr. Short engaged a public ricksha near the King Edward Hotel on Friday night about eleven pox on board the China Coast steamer o'clock and, told the puller to take him Wing Hong at Singapore after 1,100 to the fair.
deck passengers had landed and dia- persed all over the country was described in the District Court at Singapore on the 4th inst., before Mr. P. A. F. David, when Capt. E. Jones, Dr. R. & Monay, ship's surgeon, and the chinchew of the
While good news has been received in Hongkong with respect to the two China Navigation Company's vessels which were stranded in, the Hainan Straits, namely that one is off and that there is hopes for the other, the O.S.K. office here re
The coolie proceeded along Des Voux ceived news yesterday that another of Road and Connaught Road West, but on reaching a dark spot he played the usual their vessels had gone ashore.
With regard to the China Navigation trick of dropping the shafts of the rick- Company's vessels, the 5. Aweiyangsha suddenly and precipitating the after being stranded for ton days on a passenger on to the roadway. The puller shos! in the western entrance to the then robbed air. Shart of $38 in bank
refloat the Hunan in a similar predica ment, was refloated on Saturday and pro- reeded to this port, being hun here yes terday. Her damage is slight.
The quantity of fire-crackers burned in Hongkong at the opening of this New Year was certainly not smaller than in Hainan Straits, following an attempt to notes, after which he bolted with his Wing Hong were summoned for "failing 1
When the Kweiyang loft for Hongkong, the Hunan, which had been ashore since about February 1st was still stranded, but it was hoped that the salvage party would be able to reflost her on Sunday (February 14th),
ricksba.
Mr. Short stated, that a piece of paper In reporting the matter to the police, was pasted on the number piste, obliter ating some of the figures.
Two similar robberies by ricksha coolies were reported as having taken place on Thursday night, the victims in these instances being Mr. H. M. Grossmayer and Mr. J. H. Oakes, third steward and
then in port"
previous years, but the strings were not so long. In previous years those reaching the ground from fourth storeys were to he seën in abundance, but this year most of the strings on Chinese business houses measured only two or three storeys high. A new process of manufacture of fire crackers at 3aeso had made them un- As the weiyang is the only vessel of quartermaster respectively of a vessel the three concerned,—the other being the usually noisy this year.
3.5. Taming, also of the B. & S. feet,- New Year Eve sales in the large depart-to carry wireless, there has been no means mont stores in Hongkong "were good, of communication since she loft the scene. It is conjectured, however, that the figures showing better than a year ago. Hun bas been successfully refloated by "One.atore reported its New Year Eve now.
retails as about $93,000, and another
The salvage operations with regard to $29,000, compared with about $18,500 for the U.S.K. altri Mary which went ahore both at the previous New Year Evenine-days ago in the Fo Tau 3fan Pass Finished dresses or" ready-made clothes are proceeding very slowly. found good sales, ons store. reporting $9,200-op this lind, compared with some thing like 8550 a year ago. -For toys, there was a drop, one store finding tha: its sale amounted to a little over 8230,
JAPANESE VESSELS.
A SPECIAL POLICE PATROL.
ARMED CYCLISTS SEARCH SUSPECTS.
To cope with any crime during the Chinese New Year holidays, the police introduced an armed motor-cycle patrol during the week-end, under the charge of lace a doubt had a good moral effect Chief Inspector W. Kent.
Their sudden appearance at unexpected on evil-doers.
There were five machines on the road on the Hongkong side and four in Kow- loon. This patrol work began on Friday and yesterday.
ber of passengers. on board and the to make a true declaration of the num- presence of dangerous infectious disease on board. The Deputy Public Pro- secutor (Mr. R. Williamson) appeared for the Crown, and Mr. C. Everitt for the defence.
evidence was given by Dr. de Cruz that The defendants all pleaded guilty, and when the ship arrived from Amoy and Hongkong on January 30th he W 43 handed a declaration that there were 1,713 passengers on board and that there
was
no dangerous infectious disease.. Witness found five passengers in excess of the stated number, but during his examination witness found no cases of disease of this nature. "Witness there- fore gave the captain pratique, and the vessel proceeded to the roads. Subse quently she was searched by the Govern meat. Monopolies service and the Marine police, who discovered four cases of boarded the abip and found that this Witness again small-pox on board.
compared with nearly 91,000 a year ago. kong received a cable to the effect that and was continued on Saturday, Sunday Two more cases of small-pox had since 2
O account of the boycott against Hongkong, there was a scarcity of flowers as very few came down from Canton; and consequently what were put on sale in Chinatown brought good returns. A fair sized rose plan: easily commanded 84 or 83, and cherry blossoms were in great demand. The first two or three evenings of the New Year bazaar on the streets did not bring out as large a gathering as usual, but New Year Eve. saw all shops and bazaars very busy.
There was DD
she has not yet been lightened guthciently The cargo is still being discharged, but to allow of her being pulled off.
It is thought that the vessel has been holed, but her double bottom has, it is stated; prevented damage to the cargo.
Yesterday the 0.5.K. office in Hong the a.s. Suma Maru, which is employed on the Hongkong-Swatow, Amoy. For- mosa run, had gone ashore at Good Hope Cape, twelve miles from Swatow.
The vessel left Hongkong on Saturday and was deputising as a substitute boat on the Swatow run for the Kotru Maru.
There were airty Japanese students on board returning to Formosa and these
report was correct. Over 1,100 paazeti- gers had already landed in Singapore., Witness sent the ship back to the quaran- tine anchorage, and the small-pax cases and remaining passengers were landed.
aut Witness pointed
the The cyclists were armed with revolvers; developed.
seriousness of the fact that so many while an officer in each side-car carried a
passengers from the infected ship had rife ready for action,
During the tour of the different dis-dispersed throughout the peninsula and tricts on the Island and mainland, vari the Dutch Indies. ous suspicions characters were stopped and subjected to search.
were all taken off by the Taikwa Maru which was on her way from Swatow to SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT AT declaration on the faith of the doctor's Hongkong. The Taikwa Mara turned back and took these students to Swatow and then returned to the scene of the
mishap.
It is learned that the Suma Maru was making water fast in two holds and that the prospects of getting her off were not indicated in the cable to the offices of the
panic in connection with the New Year Settlement. Only one or two large concerns suspended pay-O.S.K. ;-
ment. From a business man well in touch The stranded vessel is a small boat of with the position I learn that some 26 only 919 tons not registered. per cent, of the Chinese firms in Hong kong were able to get their accounts well cleared, while the rest were not pressed nor did they press their own .debtors.
NEW YEAR AT CANTON.
FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }
Canton people did not appear to be very much in need of ready cash for the Chinese New Year. According to the compradore of a large foreign hank in Shameen, only about $150,000 was with drawn by Chinese depositors from that bank for use in the hative city before the year-end settlement, and he did not be- lieve that more than a million dollars had left Shamcer from the other half dozen foreign banks altogether.
Chinese travelling between Canton and Hongkong.were accorded the promised non-interference by the Strike Committee for a few days both before, and after the Chinese New Year. Among those who spent their New Year holidays in Hong. kong was a Kuomintang leader of some prominence.
A DESPICABLE THEFT.
BLIND WOMAN ROBBED OF HER SAVINGS.
IF .
Many solutions have been suggested to that problem stated last week: If you were given the chance of going back ten years and taking a different course of action from what you did actually take. knowing that to-day you would be what you might have become had you done so, would, you take the chance?
Incidentally it is much to be regretted received from the Hall of Learning on the that in the solution no help has been Hillside. It would be very illuminating to hear a debate on the pros and cons of this problem between those who are per- haps slightly disillusioned as to the pro- spects of any improvement in mundane affairs occurring by going back a period of time and taking another path, and those more optimistic ones who believe that given the chance of going back and acting differently the world would be come perfect.
Of the many solutions put forward none is more interesting than that of one! John Beal.
SINGAPORE.
THREE EUROPEANS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
in three Europeans being seriously injur A serious motor arash, which resulted ed, occurred last week on Orchard Road, Singapore, in the vicinity of the junction of Tanglin Road and Orange Grove Road.
A Mathis motor car was being driven. away from the town, in which the three Europeans were travelling. A Citroen Car, containing a party of Chinese proached from the opposite direction and the cars collided with full force, all the occupants being thrown out. The Europeans, Mr. R. Burns, Mr. Cowen and Mr. Hunter Hodgson; sustained very serious facial and head injuries, and are now in hospital. Their condition was critical. Strangely enough, none of the toh, the driver of the Citroen car, has Chinese were injured Ahmad bin Man- been arrested and charged with causing grievous hurt by a rash act. The posi- tion of the cars showed that the Citroen car was too far to the right of the road The Malay driver absconded, but was arrested by the Orchard Road police.
Latest reports are that the patients are making progress and are quite comfortable in hospital.
SINGAPORE BANK ROBBERY.
ARRESTS IN THREE-YEAR OLD
CASE.
811,000 RECOVERED AND TAMILS CHARGED.
from the Banque de l'Indo-Chine in October, 1922, and the recovery of $11,000 which was concealed in various houses at Geylang.
In the witness-pox Capt. Jones said that daring the voyage he and his chief officer made a daily inspection of the passenger decks, but he saw nothing of any case of small-pox. He signed the
and chinchew's statement.
Cross-examined, witness agreed that Dr. de Cruz stated that the resh was eight days old. The voyage from Hong- kong took six days, so the cases must have been on board before the ship left
Hongkong.
Dr. Monay, an Indian doctor with a Madras degree, stated that he made a daily inspection, but he saw nothing of these cases. It was possible for these persons to have been hidden among' the uggage. If he had seen them he could not have failed to recognise the disease.
Evidence was also given by the chip- chew
Mr. Everitt submitted that the captain and doctor never could have suspected that small-pox was on board. The cap- tain would have reported it in the in terests of the owners and the doctor would have done so is his own pro- fessional interests. "As for the chinchew, his statement that he had never seen a case of small-pox might very well be truc, and it was quite possible that the passengers had hidden these cases ba cause they wished to avoid quarantine.
Mr. Williamson said that it was the view of the Chief Port Health Officer that this type of offence was likely to hare very grave consequences. It was in evidence that out of the 500 passengers who had been isolated two had develop, ed small-pox, and 1,200 had dispersed all over the Colony. It might be that the captain, and doctor were innocent, but the chinchew obviously stood to gain very considerably by this concealment. If the ship did not go to quarantine he would be able to show a great profit for his owners (the charterers) because the quarantine charges would be $7,000.
His Honour said "that obviously the chinchew was the man who was primarily responsible. It was his business to look after the deck passengers. With regard to the captain, and doctor, His Honour was not prepared pass the case by with a nominal penalty. This was a very serious matter for the port and the Colony, and they must be held re- spcr.sibe.
Now John Beal is a fairly modest sort of fellow, new to the Colony, and at present declines to be dragged into the open to let the public into his mind. This much may be said however pend- ing the overcoming of his modesty. In his solution he goes back 10 years to a A sensation has been caused at Singa very trivial incident. At that time he pore by the arrest by the detective branch was in the City, and leaving his office at of three Tamils in connection with the the time most of us do-unless we hap- theft of $350,000 of cash and jewellery pen to belong to the latest claimant to the title of The Silent Service," vide our late Governor, he wended his way to the station to catch his traim Now
His Honour food the captain and it happened that-like acother local in- This was the largest bank robbery that doctor 3500 each, sad sentenced the A partially blind Chinese widow, living stitution-the Directors of that partict has occurred in Malaya, and it was achinchew to three months' imprisonment, at Second Street, was the victim of a lar railway bed been peered by seeing complete mystery at the time, says the in addition to a Bne of $500. dastardly theft on Saturday afternoon. late comert making flying leaps for their Straits Times. The detective Branch have
Later Mr. V. D. Knowles said he had A Chinese, posing as a herb specialist moving train, and had given orders that been pursuing enquiries ever since, how been instructed to appeal against the persuaded her to accompany him to nobody was to be admitted to the platever, and after three years they have attend a friend who was ill She was form after the whistle had blown. In arrested three men who are employed as sentence of imprisonment in the case of to allow bail. He understood that Mr. then taken to a vacant flat at Kwong this case John Beal bad come in time tambies or peons in the Veterinary. De the chinchew and be asked His Honour -Fung Terrace, where with the help of for his usual flying, dash, and had been, partment of the Municipality.
R. Williamson (Deputy Public Pro- another confederato, be robbed the rudely pushed back by a parter.
The arrests were made by Mr. Dickinsecutor) opposed it, but he thought the woman of $280 which was found her He now uses this incident to illustrate son, A.S.P., and Detective Inspector girdle:
his solution of this persistent problem. Tone. About $11,000 in cash and jewel- general rule was to allow bail In some way, not at present related, helery has been recovered, and it is hoped happens to know what would have occur that further finds will be made. red had he caught that train. How he knows and what his solution is, his pre- sent dislike of publicity and his total lack of public spirit presents the rest of the public from learning. There is, how ever, a certain amount of hope that hy means of a modifed 3rd degree, John Beat may be induced in the course of time to shed his super-sensitive dislike of publicity and to proclaim to all and sundry exactly what he thinks would have occurred had he caught his train 10-years previously. Meanwhile, as it is notice The rainfall for January at the ably the fact that this little word 7 Botanical Gardens was 31 inch on, 4 conduces to "poetry" and as stated days; at the Matilda Hospital, it was by a correspondent, leads inte queer 35 inch on 3 days; and at the Taipo paths, an effort of a paradist, not a locil Police Station, none whatever was re- one, will serve to close this brief introduc. tion to John Beal. If I should dis corded.
to-night,"
TEMPERATURES AND RAINFALL. OBSERVATORY RETURNS FOR
JANUARY.
The Royal Observatory returns for January ahow that the average mean temperature in Hongkong for that month was 61.1 degrees, the highest boing 75.8 on the 13th and the lowest 51.8 on the 22ud. There wore 172.9 hours of sun shine, and 0.915 inches of rain. The average humidity was 72.
The lowest reading of the barometer (tacan sea level) was 28.927 inches at 3 pm on the 13th.
The maximum squall velocity, as ro corded by the Dines Baxtendell anemo graph, was at the rate of 44 miles per hong at 6.19 am on the 3rd.
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WORLD RECORDS.
ATHLETICS IN AMERICA.
REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
NEW YORK, February 14th. Four world's indoor records were shattered, one new record, was created. and two were equalled twice in a series of thrilling performances at the Wilco athletic meeting.."
Mr. Williamson drew His Honour's attention to the grounds of appeal.
His Honour have known many cases where they are meaningless.
Mr. Knowlea: They usually are! Continuing, Mr. Williamson" pressed for substantial bail if it were allowed at all
His Honour agreed that it was a case in which substantial bail should be fixed and made an order for 85,000 in two suretics.
WEATHER REPORT.
Last night's weather report, forecast and remarks by the Royal Observatory said:
The Norwegian, Hoff, after falling on his face at the first attempt, cleared the bar in the pole jump at 13 feet, 3 inches. The anti-cyclone has strengthened. Morgan Tayler covered the 80 yards It remains stationary over N.E. China and 8.E Mongolia. Strong monsoon hurdles race in 93.10 seconda. ("..
Helffrineh won the, 500 metres in 8s may be expected along the S.E. coast of Ben China, and freshening monsoon over the seconds.
Plant completed the 3,000 metres flat North China Sea walk in 12 minutes, 49 seconde
Cummings aprinted 120 yards in 13.1/10 seconds
Local forecast: -N.E. winds, modérate to freeh, generally prercast, some drizzle
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